Was Calvin any better (a cheeky post?)

The Hildebrandian option was tried in a Protestant form (it could be argued) in Calvin’s Geneva. To his credit, Calvin was not satisfied with the banal merger of spiritual into political order which was the tendency of the Lutheran princes; nor was he in any sense convinced by the Anabaptist aversion to politics. Calvin's thought shows a determination to keep the two kingdoms parallel with one another, after the manner of Gelasius. So, though it would be hard to make absolute the case from Calvin’s writings that theocracy was his preferred response to the issue at hand, in practice the submission of secular authorities to the person of Calvin (though he was without office) in Geneva, and the continued fussy intrusion of the consistory courts on the daily life of the town meant that the difference from the Pope’s Christendom was only really a matter of scale.